Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux I want to use kmail on a remote display through "ssh -X" over broadband. The graphical mouse pointers are very very slow and I might have to wait several seconds for the pointer to move when I am dragging e-mail between folders. I have configured "none" as my KDE mouse theme but I still get the multi-part graphical mouse cursor within kmail. Worse than that, while the local display does show X cursors, I find that connecting through "ssh -X localhost" brings back the full 3D default KDE cursors as well as the multi-part drag-and-drop cursor. I suggest that kmail defaults to using a font cursor for drag-and-drop on remote displays.
I don't see any 3D cursors in my setup, KMail or anywhere else. Maybe it's a distribution configuration. Can you reproduce the problem with KMail from KDE 3.5.2? One other thing: you should really be using NX.
I suspect that SuSE OSS 10.0 uses the 3D/polychrome cursor extension to X11. These are hopefully hardware cursors on the X-server side. My problem remains that kmail attaches an extra image to the cursor during drag-and-drop and this severely slows down the response on remote desktops. I am using KDE 3.4.2 and 3.2.1, as distributed in SuSE OSS 10.0 and SuSE 9.1 respectively. Can I just do a local build of KDE 3.5.2 that won't conflict with these installed RPMs? Thanks for pointing me to NX - I am installing FreeNX on my systems. On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 11:57:24 +0100, Thiago Macieira <thiago@kde.org> wrote: [bugs.kde.org quoted mail]
KMail really has nothing to do with mouse cursors, this bug should be fixed somewhere else.